Shenon Laying Another False Scent Trail

[Albert Doyle]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2...QunWSeqJOd

[Tracy Riddle]

They're still trying to get the Castro-did-it-story pumped up again.

[Albert Doyle]

Shenon was a welcomed guest on CNN on the 50th. DiEugenio wasn't.

[Drew Phipps]

From Shenon's article:

..."Thomas was dismissed from the department in 1969, a decision that the State Department years later would acknowledge was made in errorthe result of what the department insisted was a clerical mistake related to the misfiling of some of Thomas's personnel records. The department's admission would come only after Thomas, who struggled to establish a new career, committed suicide in 1971.
Congressional investigators, who later reviewed the case and obtained pension benefits for Thomas's family, said they suspected, but could not prove, that the diplomat had actually been forced out because of his persistent, unwelcome effort to open a new investigation of Oswald's activities in Mexico. "It was impossible to prove, though," one of the congressional investigators told me when I was writing my book. "If he was forced out because of Mexico City, it was all done with a wink and a nod."

Decades after Thomas's death, the State Department would declassify internal memos that he had written to superiors, in which he had pleaded for someone to go back and reinvestigate Oswald's Mexico trip. What Thomas had learned in Mexico would not, by itself, "prove that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy," he wrote. But he warned of what might happen if long-secret evidence suggesting a Mexican-born conspiracy in JFK's murder ever became public. "Those who have tried to discredit the Warren Report could have a field day," he wrote.

In 1975, Thomas's widow received a formal apology from the White House. "The circumstances surrounding your husband's death are a source of deepest regret to the government he served so loyally and so well," the letter said. "I can only hope that the measures which came about as a result of this tragedy will prevent reoccurrences of this kind in the future." The letter was signed by President Gerald R. Ford, who, as a rising Republican congressman from Michigan in 1964, had been a member of the Warren Commission."


Anyone know what "measures" were taken by Nixon, or Ford, after Thomas' suicide in 1971?

Edit: 1975 was the year Ford apologized to biochemist Olson's family regarding his unconsented-to ingestion of LSD during MKULTRA, an incident which ultimately led to his death as well.

[Albert Doyle]

Anyone know what "measures" were taken by Nixon, or Ford, after Thomas' suicide in 1971?

Phony apologies meant to get away with it and move on. Trying to equate Nixon's downfall to the government paying for its wrongs.


Those measures were the permanent establishment of CIA-controlled conservative government that would never have to murder Kennedy's again.

[Jim DiEugenio]

What makes Shenon so disgusting is that he knows there was a new investigation in Mexico City. By the HSCA, and he talked to Hardway.

But try and find any of the revolutionary discoveries of the Lopez Report in his book.

Let alone all the evidentiary falsities that Dave Josephs is turning up at CTKA.

He must know of them, but Mr. NY Times ignores them.

And then he bandies about Slawson, the guy who caused this whole mess in the first place. Because his inquiry down there was a joke.

What is really discouraging is that he published this in Politico, an online zine. The vaunted internet journalistic revolution was stillborn.

Same old BS, slightly modified. Instead of LHO as a social misfit, we now get what the CIA wanted: Oswald killed Kennedy for the communist cause. It gives me a headache.

[Albert Doyle]

A limited hang-out for the O'Reilly-cheering Boobus Americanus.

[Jim Hargrove]

[Jim DiEugenio]

There will be a reply up at CTKA soon.

[Tracy Riddle]

I fear that the opening of Cuba to the US will result in the "discovery" of planted documents in the Cuban archives "proving" some sort of relationship between Castro agents and Oswald. The right-wingers will love it, and they can plausibly claim that "we didn't have access to this evidence until now," so the only cover-up was by the Castro government. Those dirty commies!!